Comments | ajawa_took: computer geeks: help?

ajawa_took

computer geeks: help?

Feb 08, 2006 08:46

So there's this one website that's stealing many hours of my life, and i'd like to make it maximally difficult for me to go there. It's very easy to do this on my windows machine IF i were using IExplorer; which i of course am not. Any idea how to do this in mozilla ( Read more... )

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telso February 9 2006, 06:35:04 UTC

I tried searching for 20-30 minutes, and although I found a couple plugins/extensions that would do the job, they haven't been updated since 1.5Alpha and so won't work. Besides those content controllers, there were some other ones, but none had a website blacklist feature. There were some message boards asking for it but no acceptable solutions. However, if the website is based on graphics or flash or some format people tend to find annoying, there's likely something that'll do the trick. Otherwise, it seems like a firewall or a highly developped content controller should do the trick, but that's the swatting-a-fly-with-a-missile solution and might even cost money. If you want to try those, you should be able to find many easily (and since I don't use them, I have no ideas on preferences).

And although it seems like a weird feature request, it would seem rather useful, in case you never want your browser to go to a certain malicious site. Good luck!

ajawa_took February 10 2006, 08:16:59 UTC

thanks! yes, missiles seem to cost money :(

tajmahall February 9 2006, 23:45:37 UTC

Every time you go to the website, put $10 in an envelope and mail it to me.

ajawa_took February 10 2006, 08:18:13 UTC

hmm; that's way too much effort! besides, it's illegal to mail cash. and besides, i never have any one me.

tajmahall February 10 2006, 08:57:24 UTC

... then don't go to the website!

quale February 12 2006, 07:29:59 UTC

It's illegal to mail cash!?!?! You sure?

quale February 12 2006, 07:29:34 UTC

What sort of system are you trying to do this on? Windows?

take the name of the website you don't want to access (e.g. blah.com if you want to block blah.com...) and copy a line of the form

127.0.0.1 blah.com

you may need to add extra lines like

127.0.0.1 www.blah.com

to be sure

Now take all those lines and add them to the file HOSTS in the following location (depending on whether you are running XP 2000 or so on)

Windows XP = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Windows 2K = C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC
Win 98/ME = C:\WINDOWS

If the file doesn't exist create it. You may (I'm not sure) need to reboot before this starts working.

If this isn't sufficent protection to stop you from going to the site you can now use all the power of file protections and hidden files to make the file a pain in the ass to access.

If this isn't enough I think I could probably do better with some more time.

awesome! ajawa_took February 14 2006, 18:38:04 UTC

will try. Thanks!

file HOSTS quale February 24 2006, 18:30:17 UTC

Wow, thanks !
My computer already a year could not get to Amazon.
Reversing your procedure, I removed Amazon line from HOST file.
Now I am all set. Thanks again.
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